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Current Events => Breaking News => News From The Mexican Border => Topic started by: CactusCarlos on January 04, 2011, 08:42:24 PM

Title: Buoys strung on border canal to prevent drownings
Post by: CactusCarlos on January 04, 2011, 08:42:24 PM: Quote
CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) -- A government agency on the front lines of the immigration debate has begun installing lifesaving buoys in a fast-moving canal along the U.S.-Mexico border where migrants drown each year as they sneak into the country illegally.

The debate over the lifelines has long presented authorities with a moral dilemma: Is it acceptable to do nothing when so many immigrants are dying in the water? Or do lifesaving devices lull immigrants into a false sense of security that they can conquer the channel while giving them extra motivation to enter the country illegally?

More: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CANAL_BORDER_DEATHS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-01-04-18-35-45
Title: Re: Buoys strung on border canal to prevent drownings
Post by: Chris_ on January 04, 2011, 08:45:52 PM: :thatsright:

I'm sure there are more deserving countries that could use those buoys. :whatever:
Title: Re: Buoys strung on border canal to prevent drownings
Post by: DefiantSix on January 04, 2011, 10:39:20 PM: Quote from: chris_ on January 04, 2011, 08:45:52 PM
:thatsright:

I'm sure there are more deserving countries that could use those buoys. :whatever:

Maybe we can get that dumb bitch Napolitano to give 'em to Afghanistan. Oh yeah, she's trying to CLOSE the borders there.

Never mind.
Title: Re: Buoys strung on border canal to prevent drownings
Post by: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 10:45:51 PM: Is it too much to hope that there are mines attached to those buoys?
Title: Re: Buoys strung on border canal to prevent drownings
Post by: true_blood on January 05, 2011, 06:28:42 PM: Quote from: DefiantSix on January 04, 2011, 10:39:20 PM
Maybe we can get that dumb bitch Napolitano to give 'em to Afghanistan. Oh yeah, she's trying to CLOSE the borders there.
Never mind.
I know, right? What a joke. She can't even do the job in the U.S. and they expect her "expertise" in Afghanistan?!
Title: Re: Buoys strung on border canal to prevent drownings
Post by: DefiantSix on January 06, 2011, 09:03:14 PM: Quote from: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 10:45:51 PM
Is it too much to hope that there are mines attached to those buoys?

Probably. But I bet they don't move around too much, and as such they make great ranging markers. :killemall:
Title: Re: Buoys strung on border canal to prevent drownings
Post by: RightCoast on January 06, 2011, 09:20:14 PM: So we can't have a fence and they just basically made a rope bridge over our moat. Great.
Title: Re: Buoys strung on border canal to prevent drownings
Post by: DefiantSix on January 06, 2011, 09:24:15 PM: Quote from: RightCoast on January 06, 2011, 09:20:14 PM
So we can't have a fence and they just basically made a rope bridge over our moat. Great.

You may consider it a "rope bridge" if you want to. I prefer to look on it as a "kill box". :killemall:
Title: Re: Buoys strung on border canal to prevent drownings
Post by: IassaFTots on January 06, 2011, 09:33:27 PM: Quote from: DefiantSix on January 06, 2011, 09:24:15 PM
You may consider it a "rope bridge" if you want to. I prefer to look on it as a "kill box". :killemall:

I'd feel better if you lived on the border! :tongue:
Title: Re: Buoys strung on border canal to prevent drownings
Post by: RightCoast on January 06, 2011, 09:58:47 PM: Quote from: DefiantSix on January 06, 2011, 09:24:15 PM
You may consider it a "rope bridge" if you want to. I prefer to look on it as a "kill box". :killemall:

You can look at it however you want, but my guess is there's ICE agents sitting on the good side with towels and welfare forms for anybody that make it across.